Why has the Unit Standard been removed from the IWH certificates?

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Why has the Unit Standard been removed from the IWH certificates?

REMOVAL OF UNIT STANDARDS/QUALIFICATION IWH PROFESSIONAL BODY CERTIFICATES
Until recently, the IWH Professional Body has included the unit standards and qualification on our Certificates of Registration against our Designations due to the backlog of issuing Statements of Results by the SETA ETQA’s. The issuing of Statement of Competence for unit standards and qualifications should be issued by the relevant SETA ETQA or Quality Assurance Body. We have been told by the SETA ETQA’s that they do not have any backlogs of issuing Statements of Results anymore.

The IWH PB has decided to remove the SAQA registered unit standards and titles from its certificates. Our certificates are supposed to indicate that the person has been registered against a specific designation with the Professional Body and not for being issued with a qualification or unit standard. As our designations are all linked to SAQA registered qualifications and unit standards, it is not necessary for us as a professional body to include the unit standards or qualifications on our certificates. Please take note, we are a Professional Body, registered with SAQA and therefore our designations are also registered with SAQA and aligned to SAQA and NQF registered qualifications and unit standards, and therefore each person registered with us against a designation, will legitimately reflect on SAQA’s National Learner Record Database as such.

If anybody is unsure which unit standards are linked to our professional designations, they are welcome to:

Visit our website and look under the designations as registered with SAQA which unit standards the designations are linked to, or

Request the Statement of Results from the relevant SETA ETQA which should actually accompany our registration against the designation.

Brought up in South Johannesburg, South Africa, Hein made quite a shift from his fields of study, Zoology and Botany, to work at height but has none the less made quite the impact. Hein is an IRATA technician and an IWH level 3 rope access supervisor, assessor, moderator and trainer, with over 20, 000 hours gained across a 19-year career involved in off-shore access and rigging, heavy lifting operations and industrial cleaning to name a few. The solution driven nature of his work as well as the unpredictability moves Hein into bringing order to chaos and helping discover purpose in people. He is currently the Managing Director of Gravity Access (Pty) Ltd

Gert Forster

The founding father of the Gravity Group, Gert Forster is a born and bred Pretorian. Across a illustrious work at height career (a deviation from his studies in Nature Life Management) Gert achieved IRATA and IWH level 3 status early on and has continued to improve not only himself but the entire industry and has been doing so since 1994. It should come as no surprise that Gert has a love for heights, the outdoors and people.

Andries Nel

Hailing from Welkom Freestate, Andries has been with Gravity since 2012. He completed his B.Com Financial Management and then went on to become a SAIPA Accounting Technician as well as obtaining his CIMA Certificate. He has a passion for business that focusses on service delivery, honesty, integrity and quality. His aim is to help grow to company to such and extent where we can have the opportunity to give back to the community at large.

Ryno Griesel

Ryno Griesel was born in Pretoria, South Africa, and after making quick work of his Chartered Accountant (SA) qualification (as well as becoming an Independent Auditor and a SARS Tax Practitioner) he turned his attention to the work at height industry. With a passion for people and making a difference through business combined with a love for climbing and adventure, Ryno and the Gravity Group were a perfect fit from the start. He has been involved with the Gravity Group since 2005.